Swide Magazine by Dolce&Gabbana

Provocative, sexy, curve-enhancing corsetry has been at the core of Dolce&Gabbana's aesthetic since its launch back in the eighties. A collectible item, a feminine urge, a dream of shape, fabrics, and flexible to all imagination.

Meet the corset dress, the signature one, the classic black you will find in every collection because it's desirable beyond comprehension. If one day you really feel like being seductive you know where to go....

The little black dress has found a not-so-uptight companion late in the eighties. Underwear as outerwear. The designer duo had figured out what every man wanted in a woman and what women wanted on their body: a curve-boosting property.

What we were able to see back in the time only in a bedroom, under a pile of clothes, as shown in the striptease scene with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni ("Marriage Italian Style" 1964), now was sitting on our dresses. 

The original design was black and decorated with traditional lingerie features, including hooks, laced stays: it became an instant classic. The designers than experimented: shrank the corset dress or paired it with a white shirt for a masculine meets feminine style.

Over the years it has re-appeared in variations of the same theme: shimmering brocade, lace, chiffon, flower prints, leopard print, even a plastic version for SS 07.

An iconic item of clothing that is as relevant today as it was 20 years ago. That's fashion reinvention. Something you would want to see in a museum and dream of owning.

Corsetry mixes or stands alone on the catwalk. Emblematic amazon beauties such as Linda Evangelista at the height of the supermodel era.

 
Corsetry's main function over the centuries, even with different styles and shapes, always focused on a smaller waist.

 
A mix and match of prints and a runway full of corsets: the icon is here.

 
Experiments: masculine influences, futuristic visions, and the simple and pure whites of the latest SS11 collection.

 
Seduction takes different forms so does the original black corset dress.

 
An Alist favourite: the corset can enhance even the most-gymhoned Hollywood bodies, from Lady Gaga, to Beyoncé, to Madonna, to Gwen Stefani... Demi Moore, and the list will go on.

Fashion reinvention of women's liberation? Back in the day during the war, women had to sacrifice their corsets because the US army needed the metal used for the clothing item for military purposes. It was a first taste of liberation that eliminated the corset from the ladies' wardrobes replacing it with a girdle.

In the eighties at the height of the "Working Girl" woman, the career hunter, the emancipation of women, here came the corset by Dolce&Gabbana and it became a source of power rather than mimicking its ancestor. Now, that's called Fashion Reivention.

Images Style by Yuri Ahn.

Written by Acelya Yonac

Archives from :  “20 YEARS DOLCE & GABBANA”.

Source: Dolce&Gabbana

 

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